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What has been happening to UK income inequality since the mid-1990s? Answers from reconciled and combined household survey and tax return data
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Hérault, Nicolas; Jenkins, … - 2016
Estimates of UK income inequality trends differ substantially according to whether estimates are based on household survey data (used for official statistics) or tax return data (used in the top incomes literature). We reconcile differences in variable definitions and combine survey and tax...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011690327
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What has been happening to UK income inequality since the mid-1990s? : answers from reconciled and combined household survey and tax return data
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Hérault, Nicolas; Jenkins, Stephen - 2016
Estimates of UK income inequality trends differ substantially according to whether estimates are based on household survey data (used for official statistics) or tax return data (used in the top incomes literature). We reconcile differences in variable definitions and combine survey and tax...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434172
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What has been happening to UK income inequality since the mid-1990s? : answers from reconciled and combined household survey and tax return data
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Hérault, Nicolas; Jenkins, Stephen - 2016
Estimates of UK income inequality trends differ substantially according to whether estimates are based on household survey data (used for official statistics) or tax return data (used in the top incomes literature). We reconcile differences in variable definitions and combine survey and tax...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452217
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Consumption inequality and family labor supply
Blundell, Richard; Pistaferri, Luigi; Saporta-Eksten, Itay - 2014
In this paper we examine the link between wage inequality and consumption inequality using a life cycle model that … incorporates household consumption and family labour supply decisions. We derive analytical expressions based on approximations for … the dynamics of consumption, hours, and earnings of two earners in the presence of correlated wage shocks, non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605701
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Results from the first wave
Europäische Zentralbank / Eurosystem Household Finance … - 2013
This report summarises key stylised facts from the first wave of the Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption … 62,000 households. The report presents results on household assets and liabilities, income, and indicators of consumption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011664034
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Leisure inequality in the United States: 1965 - 2003
Sevilla, Almudena; Gimenez-Nadal, J. Ignacio; Gershuny, … - 2012
inequality in the US and provide a basis for weighing the relative decline in earnings and consumption for the less educated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287648
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Measuring trends in leisure: The allocation of time over five decades
Aguiar, Mark; Hurst, Erik - 2006
In this paper, we use five decades of time-use surveys to document trends in the allocation of time. We document that a dramatic increase in leisure time lies behind the relatively stable number of market hours worked (per working-age adult) between 1965 and 2003. Specifically, we document that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280871
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Parting with "blue monday": Preferences in home production and consumer responses to innovations
Witt, Ulrich; Woersdorfer, Julia Sophie - 2011
How can economic theory explain the reasons why consumers adopt innovations? Using the example of innovations in washing machines two approaches are compared. The first focuses in the manner of household production theory on changes in constraints without specifying preferences, leading to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286759
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Measuring trends in leisure : the allocation of time over five decades
Aguiar, Mark (contributor); Hurst, Erik (contributor) - 2006 - This version: January 2006
In this paper, we use five decades of time-use surveys to document trends in the allocation of time. We document that a dramatic increase in leisure time lies behind the relatively stable number of market hours worked (per working-age adult) between 1965 and 2003. Specifically, we document that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003286734
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Parting with "blue monday" : preferences in home production and consumer responses to innovations
Witt, Ulrich; Woersdorfer, Julia Sophie - 2011
How can economic theory explain the reasons why consumers adopt innovations? Using the example of innovations in washing machines two approaches are compared. The first focuses in the manner of household production theory on changes in constraints without specifying preferences, leading to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009236027